In AzeoTech DAQFactory release 20.7 (Build 2555), a Use After Free vulnerability can be exploited to cause memory corruption while parsing specially crafted .ctl files. This could allow an attacker to execute code in the context of the current process.
The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.